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  More Than 100 Female Candidates Won in Florida's Primaries

  August 29 at 12:26 p.m.

  This year, record numbers of women across Florida are mounting campaigns for office, most of them progressives motivated by anti-Trump fervor and emboldened by the Women's March. The so-called Pink Wave had its first real test Tuesday, Primary Day. And the early returns suggest the wave is real.

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  Miami Beach Commissioner's Endorsement of Philip Levine Might Have Violated Florida Law

  August 15 at 8:30 a.m.

  Last Friday, Miami Beach City Attorney Raul Aguila schooled the town's mayor and commissioners in how to avoid getting in trouble during election season. He sent all the officials a three-page memo, written by the county's Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, spelling out some clear ground rules...

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  Ousted Sweetwater Commissioner Blames Political Corruption for Campaign Loss

  June 22 at 8:42 a.m.

  In April 2017, just a few weeks before Sweetwater's elections, Commissioner Isolina Maroño and mayoral candidate Saul Díaz were riding in a car together when they were stopped by police. Officers found inside the vehicle multiple absentee ballots belonging to Maroño's relatives.

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  Can Local Socialists Sell Florida Democrats on Universal Health Care?

  April 24 at 10 a.m.

  Miami's Democratic Socialists of America brought together former Florida state Sen. Dwight Bullard, United We Dream activist Maria Bilbao, National Nurses United representative Millicent Bowerbank, and Miami midwife Jamarah Amani, who phoned in from a live birth, to discuss a health-care plan that would work for everyone and how to push for it in Florida.

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  "Progressive" Miami Beach Candidate Donated to GOP, Ted Cruz-Founded PAC

  Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 10 a.m.

  Take a look at Miami Beach Commission candidate Mark Samuelian's campaign platform and you might assume he's a longtime progressive. The board director of Miami Beach United and former business consultant emphasizes his support for increasing the minimum wage, fighting climate change, and advocating for the city's LGBT population.

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  Group Sues to Demand Florida Election Recount

  Monday, December 5, 2016 at 4:28 p.m.

  Protect Our Elections, a liberal-leaning group based in Washington, D.C., says that more than 160,000 votes in Florida weren't counted during last month's presidential election. The group claims each of those votes matters a great deal, since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 112,911 votes in the Sunshine State. Trump...